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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #100 on: October 21, 2007, 12:30:52 am »
Well, Saw "The Brave One" with Jodie Foster tonite and Terrance Howard.  A 'chick vigilante' movie. 

It was, 'eh, ok.  If you're a serious movie buff, you'll see it.  If you're a "wait for video" buff, wait for video.

Jodie Foster is too "intense" of an actress to do this.  I think it was supposed to be some sort of semi-character study about her "losing" her "pre-fiance murder" self and becoming this 'stranger' that was unleashed after the murder, but it didn't do that very well.  It also kinda of dragged there for a bit...  aand... well... I'm a movie guy that wants to see something "believable" if it's supposed to be some sort of "believable" movie.

And with this movie, there were so many holes in the vigilantism that I started doing the "rolleyes, what ridiculous thing will they do next"... oh... I don't know... like maybe have a chick get whacked with a crowbar in the arm, but oh wait, the guy with the crowbar decided to * drop * the crowbar for, oh, I don't know, how about run over to the edge of the building so that when the chick picks up the crowbar and smacks the guy in the head, he falls over the ledge and dies. 

Or * spoiler alert * (can we just go ahead and make this whole thread a spoiler alert)... the last scene... so the good cop "lets the chick off" after she takes out the three guys that murdered her fiancee.  But wait, one of the guys got shot square int he forehead from 2 feet away, one guy got shot in the back three times, and one guy guy a gun planted on his head while he was laying on the ground... now way in hell that scene will match the "story" the good guy cop was going to tell.

Oh well, better luck in the future for me.  I just don't see any movies that grab me, except for that Tom Cruise movie about Count Stauffenbergs July 20th attempt on hitler.... but that's because I'm interested in the time period.  Beowolf?  Blah.  Looks like a cheap LOTR knockoff with bad CG.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #101 on: October 21, 2007, 03:33:21 am »
Thanks for that review Ace, My wife and I have been wondering about that one. I found a trailer to National Treasure: Book of secrets over at http://www.ssupload.com/ and It looks like it might be the X-mas time movie I go see.

It's a shame the guy at tv-Links.uk got busted. Esp. since he was a small time player, compared to the billionaires on google who show the same damn movies.

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #102 on: October 21, 2007, 04:52:54 am »
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It's a shame the guy at tv-Links.uk got busted. Esp. since he was a small time player, compared to the billionaires on google who show the same damn movies.


Ah Hell!!!!!!!  No wonder it wasn't coming up today. When did he get busted? Thats one of my favorite sites.

Ok I found the Story

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2195407,00.html

Major pirate website shut down


Katie Allen
Friday October 19, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

 
The site allowed users to illegally download shows like 24
 
One of the world's most-used pirate film websites has been closed after providing links to illegal versions of major Hollywood hits and TV shows.

The first closure of a major UK-based pirate site was also accompanied by raids and an arrest, the anti-piracy group Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) said today.


A 26-year-old man from Cheltenham was arrested on Thursday in connection with offences relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the internet, Fact said.


The arrest and the closure of the site - www.tv-links.co.uk - came during an operation by officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police.


Fact claims that tv-links.co.uk was providing links to illegal film content that had been camcorder recorded from cinemas and then uploaded to the internet. The site also provided links to TV shows that were being illegally distributed.


Visitors to the site could get access to major feature films, sometimes within days of their initial cinema release. Recent links took users to illegal versions of the Disney/Pixar animation sensation Ratatouille as well as to most of this summer's blockbusters.


"Sites such as TV Links contribute to and profit from copyright infringement by identifying, posting, organising, and indexing links to infringing content found on the internet that users can then view on demand by visiting these illegal sites," said a spokesman for Fact.


The group's director general Kieron Sharp said TV Links was the first major target in a campaign to crackdown on web piracy.


"The theft and distribution of films harms the livelihoods of those working in the UK film industry and in ancillary industries, as well as damaging the economy," he said.


Roger Marles, from Trading Standards said sites such as TV Links allowed people to break UK copyright law.


"The 'users' are potentially evading licence fees, subscription fees to digital services or the cost of purchase or admittance to cinemas to view the films," he added.


The British Video Association estimates that at least £459m was lost to the video, film and TV industries due to piracy in 2006.

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #103 on: October 21, 2007, 05:52:37 am »
Doh! I should have posted that story above, my bad there.

But yeah, IT was a good site, esp. when I missed some tv shows, because of schedule conflicts.

The other sad thing, I s I was making a few friends in there forums over there.

I'll keep a look out for other sites though, and post them in this thread.

Stephen
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #104 on: October 23, 2007, 11:57:10 am »
Watched Transformers last night.  If I was 13, the movie would rock.  But I'm not, so I was pretty disappointed in it.  Best thing going for it was the transformers transforming, and some of the one-liners by Megatron (a good guy xformer:  "You want a piece of me?".  Megatron (rips the good guy in two): "No, I want two pieces")

Of course, you've got the super hottie high school chick who... stop me if you've heard this before... "learned everything there is to know about cars in her dad's car shop". 

Overall, this movie was written for a 13 year old kid, and I was kinda disappointed in that.  I figured since the "transformer cartoon crowd" is about 26-30 years old, the movie would have targeted that audience.  But it didn't.  Oh well.

Best part of the movie was in the beginning, before the cheesy kid crap started.  I must say, the first bad transformer made a heck of an entrance.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #105 on: October 23, 2007, 09:09:34 pm »
I have to say I was bored stiff by the first 2/3 of the movie.  The last third was okay, but wasn't all that interesting except it was one big explosion fest.  Don't know what all the hype is about the movie and why people on the internet seemed to love it.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #106 on: October 26, 2007, 01:02:33 pm »
Quote from: AcePylut on October 09, 2007, 03:46:14 pm

Well maybe I wouldn't kick Jessica Alba out of bed.

Yeah, I was thinking "Gee, doesn't Ace have a light switch?!?!  Poor Guy"

As for transformers... bah... I want a Mechwarrior movie by the Galactica producers.  I prefer my giant robots with enemy infantry between the toes.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #107 on: October 26, 2007, 04:04:13 pm »
hehe, first thought on that plot line was some Japanese monster movie import like "Mechatron vs. Godzilla" or something.

With a purposeful grin an insatiable smile
he pulls those spinning high tension wires down
helpless people on subway trains
scream my god as he looks down on them...

he picks up a bus and he throws it back down
as he wades through the village towards the center of toooowwwwnnnnnnnn.

(or something. However that BOC song went, with my interpretation of it)
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #108 on: October 31, 2007, 05:16:35 pm »
Quote from: AcePylut on October 21, 2007, 12:30:52 am
Well, Saw "The Brave One" with Jodie Foster tonite and Terrance Howard.  A 'chick vigilante' movie. 

It was, 'eh, ok.  If you're a serious movie buff, you'll see it.  If you're a "wait for video" buff, wait for video.

Jodie Foster is too "intense" of an actress to do this.  I think it was supposed to be some sort of semi-character study about her "losing" her "pre-fiance murder" self and becoming this 'stranger' that was unleashed after the murder, but it didn't do that very well.  It also kinda of dragged there for a bit...  aand... well... I'm a movie guy that wants to see something "believable" if it's supposed to be some sort of "believable" movie.

And with this movie, there were so many holes in the vigilantism that I started doing the "rolleyes, what ridiculous thing will they do next"... oh... I don't know... like maybe have a chick get whacked with a crowbar in the arm, but oh wait, the guy with the crowbar decided to * drop * the crowbar for, oh, I don't know, how about run over to the edge of the building so that when the chick picks up the crowbar and smacks the guy in the head, he falls over the ledge and dies. 

Or * spoiler alert * (can we just go ahead and make this whole thread a spoiler alert)... the last scene... so the good cop "lets the chick off" after she takes out the three guys that murdered her fiancee.  But wait, one of the guys got shot square int he forehead from 2 feet away, one guy got shot in the back three times, and one guy guy a gun planted on his head while he was laying on the ground... now way in hell that scene will match the "story" the good guy cop was going to tell.

Oh well, better luck in the future for me.  I just don't see any movies that grab me, except for that Tom Cruise movie about Count Stauffenbergs July 20th attempt on hitler.... but that's because I'm interested in the time period.  Beowolf?  Blah.  Looks like a cheap LOTR knockoff with bad CG.


"chick vigalante movie".... we have come a long way....
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #109 on: November 01, 2007, 04:34:07 pm »
It's not a 'chick-flick' if that's what you mean.  It's a vigilante movie with a 'chick' as the lead.  Me, I'd recommend Death Wish if you're in the mood for some on-screen vigilantism.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #110 on: November 04, 2007, 12:19:52 am »
Saw American Gangster tonite.  I recommend it.  Was good.  Ridley Scott did a good job mixing the cop and criminal stories together pretty well. 

It's not a "crime-action" movie.  It's crime drama.  The couple sitting next to us "didn't care for it because there was hardly any action".  There was only one shootout in the whole movie. 

Denzel Washington reminds me a lot of Mel Gibson.  In that, when you're watching the movie, you never forget that you're watching Denzel or Mel, but they are such great actors and bring so much to the screen that anything they do is pretty powerful.  Russel Crowe did a good job too, definetly no slouch, but this movie belonged to Denzel Washington.  I don't think I've ever heard him "talk" like a black gangster - and some of the lines he belted out made me go "wow".

Any Deadwood fans out there will notice Sal Star :)  THat was a nice treat.  And if anyone watched "Oz", Robson from Oz has a part in the movie.

One of the things that - to me - is an indicator of a good movie is if the movie doesn't "feel" like it was 2.5 hours long (or 2 hours, or however long the movie may be).  This movie didn't feel like it was 2.5 hours long, but it was.


Also, get ready to roll back to the '80's.  One of the previews was for a new Rambo movie.  Sly Stallone must need to pay rent or something.  First a return to Rocky a couple years or so ago, now a return to his action-stud character, John Rambo.  There was also a  new Tom Hanks movie coming out... "Chuck Wilson's War" (can't remeber the title).... "based on facts" account of our covert war against the Sov's in Afghanistan.

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #111 on: November 04, 2007, 06:46:55 am »
Here you go Ace, http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163374855.0.html I had posted the Rambo Trailer awhile back.

Stephen
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #112 on: November 04, 2007, 04:19:48 pm »
I haven't been to a new movie since "Team America" came out. Seriously, there's been nothing that's excited me since. Afterall, what could match Cartman singing 'Heat of the Moment'?
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #113 on: November 04, 2007, 04:25:50 pm »
Heck, I go about once am onth to town, But If A movie isn't on sattelite, I don't watch it. Take for example The last FF4 movie, Even with a zit, I still had a craving for Jessica Alba.

seriously, Me and the wife have been watching older movies, Like the quit man with John wayne and Maureen O'hara.

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #114 on: November 26, 2007, 10:18:56 pm »
I've been short on change lately to see the big screen.

I DO want to see American Gangster.  I like both leads.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #115 on: November 26, 2007, 10:29:51 pm »
O yeah...I forgot.  Saved up a lot of dough and bought a 1080 hi def plasma TV.  42"s....

oooooo   8)

At long last.  But I need a hi def DVD which i dont have money for yet. 

Anyway saw "Wild Hogs" on DVD.  Funny flick.  Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and the dweeby guy with glasses (I looked him up..William H Macy)....its a good laugh.  Ray Liotta and a bunch of faces played the heavy.

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« Reply #116 on: November 27, 2007, 11:14:50 am »
I got a kick out of wild hogs also. I'll go into town on the 4th, and probably pick up Live Free or Die hard, and maybe a few others.

I watched Hostel 2 last night, and was bored out of my mind. I'd miss it to be honest.

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« Reply #117 on: December 03, 2007, 12:34:03 pm »
Tho' I haven't seen a recent movie (Transformers being the last (yawn), if you want to see a good translation (IMHO) look for Beowulf (2001???) starring Christopher Lambert. Made by the same team that did Mortal Combat I found this film is the most unlikely place- my local public library.

I just wish I could find is for purchase. Looked in every catalog I could find for 3 months- no luck (apparently not released in America), but worth the hunt if your into that kinda thing.
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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #118 on: December 03, 2007, 01:14:59 pm »
Ok, haven't been to the big screen since American Gangsters...

but this weekend, I saw "The Thin Red Line" in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart... looked at all the names in it *(George Clooney, Nick Nolte, John Cusack, John C Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Adrian Brody, John Travolta, the Terminator 3 guy, Jared Leto, Jim Caveziel (SP - Jesus from Passion) ) and picked it up.

It was absolutely horrible.  So fricking horrible that it put me to sleep in about 1 hour.  Yes.  It was that bad.

Not only was the entire plot (whatever that was) terrible imho, but shees... wtf are producers putting the ARMY in Guadacanal?  WTF were P-39's doing on Guadacanal?  WTF were C47's doing on Guadacanal so early in the campaign?

I would write a review about it, if I knew what it was supposed to be about.

Here's AP coming at you, $5 less rich after that mistake. 

Sad thing is that I watched the movie a long time ago and thought it was awful then.  And this movie was up for like 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture?  Shees.

Anyone else watch this movie and think differently?  If so, I'm curious as to why.

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Re: Some Movies I've Watched....
« Reply #119 on: December 03, 2007, 03:36:34 pm »
The wife and I saw it awhile back, and we both feel the same way you do Ace. Another one that we where dissapointed in was Invisible.

We thought it might be at least a good show akin to Ghost from so many years ago, instead, it was a predictible peace of melodrama crap.

Anyone catching Tinman on Scifi? not bad so far, very adult themed in the since of say the Tin man himself. He was trapped in a device forced to watch his family tortured and murdered over and over for years. It's not a kid Friendly version of OZ, in fact, the land is the O.Z.

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